Composition of matter.



FRANK MLEKUSH, OF RANKIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

GOMPOSITIGN 0F MATTER.

991,223, specification of Letters Patent. No Drawing.

Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented'certain new anduseful Improvements in Composition of Matter, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful composition of matter to beused for starting fires, and the composition consists of the followingingredients combined in the proportion stated, viz:

Pure petroleum 65 parts Powdered or granulated chalk 20 parts Causticnitrate 2 parts Rosin 4 parts Stearin- 8 parts Pure water 3 parts Benzin25 parts Alcohol (commercial) l 10 parts Patented May 2, 1911.

Application filed December 23, 1910; Serial No. 598,947.

petroleum, chalk and benzin are then mixed and this mixture added to themixture obtained by commingling the first and second groups ofingredients. After thoroughly mixing all of the above ingredientstogether the mass is then molded into blocks or cakes 1 of suitablesize.

By the use of the above ingredients a fire can be easily and quicklystarted by simply placing one of the cakes or blocks among the kindlingwood or coals to be burned.

Whotft claim is l. The herein described composition of matter,consisting of petroleum, chalk, caustic nitrate, rosin, stearin, water,benzin and alcohol, substantially as described and for the purposespecified.

2. The herein described composition of matter for starting fires,consisting of petroleum sixty-five parts, chalk twenty parts, causticnitrate ten parts, rosin four parts,

stearin eight parts, water three parts, benzin twenty-five parts andalcohol ten parts.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK lVfLEKUSH.

